Comments on: Friday Five: Atomic Bombs

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:40:11 +0000

I read that (or maybe it was the Cliff Notes).
I was brought to tears when Achilles killed Hector.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:51:22 +0000

“Myriad” is something of an overstatement, I think.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:25:32 +0000

Finally a topic I can really get into! (lol) “Great Atomic Power” is one of my favorite songs and I have multiple versions. It’s just a shame Elizabeth Cook didn’t record another version for “Gospel Plow”. Oh well…

Considering what Iran has been up to lately, this topic is far more relevant today than it has been since the Cold War of the 1950′s. That is so not a good thing!

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:41:52 +0000

I remember reading about the myriad country songs about atomic bombs in “By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age” by Paul Boyer. If memory serves me right, Boyer notes that the threat of nuclear war fit in perfectly with country music’s recurring theme of man-made disaster, and the dread of an apocalypse explains the many references to religious salvation contained in these songs.

By: Dave D.

Dave D. — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:25:55 +0000

Not worthy of the Top 5, but Robbie Fulks’ Jean Arthur cites “atom bombs”.

By: Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:35:06 +0000

Good one; OK, I’ll play. See, from rootsy neighborhoods, “Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb” from the Soul Stirrers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi5q3Gq6UhI
..and “Tennessee” from Mr. Carl Perkins, for its excellent understanding of our state’s central contributions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2u94Feswfw